Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only the momentum of his best-seller reputation keeps Author Hutchinson going. As Once You Were, the story of a middle-aged writer named Piers Exceat who retires to a small island-estate to re-live a sort of Boy Scout boyhood, makes Author Hutchinson's If Winter Comes seem in retrospect like hard-hammered realism. Not only has his sentimentality aged terribly but even his style has become wrinkled and chapfallen...
Hunter Roy Greenlaw farms 385 acres of George Washington's boyhood home on the banks of the Rappahannock River near Falmouth, Va. When Hunter took over the farm after his father's death nearly five years ago, it didn't amount to much. A gangling stalk of a lad, Hunter stayed in high school and managed the farm on the principles he learned there...
...years ago, Professor Einar Meulen-gracht, chief physician of Bispebjaerg Hospital in Copenhagen, examined a 71-year-old Swedish engineer who had lost four inches and was slowly shrinking back to boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet...
...picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round of weddings and funerals, his puppy loves-the period, in short, which is grounded in Author DeJong's own boyhood. Of Tjerk's experiences in the Dutch Army, his marriage, the dissatisfactions...
...this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These pages give readers a sickening jolt. But Celine's purpose is apparently to show that neither Ferdinand (his autobiographical main character) nor the world has improved since his boyhood...